Cabinet for papers of needles



(No Model.)

E. MEYERS.

CABINET FOR PAPERS OF NEEDLES.

Patented Aug. 18, 1885.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,717, dated August18, 1885.

Application filed March 27, 1885. (Nomodrlir To all whom, it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, Fnnunron MEYERs, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Cabinets for Papers of Needles,&c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention consists in the combination, in a cabinet for containingpapers of needles and the like, of compartments formed therein,

slides which extend into said compartments, and recesses formed in theslides andadapted to receive one of the packages, the compartments beingformed by a series of vertical walls, and in these walls are transversegrooves, into which are fitted theslides, the recesses formed in theslides being of a slightly-greater depth than the thickness of one ofthe packages placed thereon, so that when one of the slides is drawn outonly one of the packages will be brought. with it, the remainingpackages being retained by the front wall of the cabinet, the cabinetbeing made in two separable sections in order that the same can bereplenished when any one of the compartments becomes exhausted. In therear section are longitudinal bars, which prevent the papers of needlesor other packages from fall ing out of their respective compartments.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical transverse sectionin the plane 1 y, Fig, 2, of my improved cabinet. Fig. 2 is a horizontalsection of the same in the plane as m, Fig. 1.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the cabinet, which is composedof two sections, B B, which are fitted together and secured in place bythe catches a on the back of the section B and the bottom 0, and thecatches b on the ends of the sections, while the end pieces of thesection B fit in grooves formed in the bottom 0, Fig. 1, which is of onepiece and secured to the front section, B. In the example shown in thedrawings the front section, B, has formed into its front a series ofrectangular holes or openings, 0, which, however, may be made of anydesired shape, and

can be arranged to suit the purpose required.

D are partition-walls, which extend vertically between the top andbottom of the front section, and are grooved at intervals correspondingto the holes or openings aim the front. These grooves form guides d forthe slides E, which fit into the same, and can move therein in thedirection of their length, while they are prevented from being drawnentirely out by the projections 6, extending from their inner ends. Bythese slides E the compartments formed by the partition-walls D aresubdivided into smaller compartments f, and into the latter are placedthe papers 5/ of needles or other articles, such articles resting up onthe slides,

Into each of the slides E is formed a transverse recess, E, whichextends completely across the same, and is of sufficient length toreceive the packages for which the cabinet is designed, while its depthis made the same or a little greater than the thickness of the package,so that when the slide is drawn out, by means of the knob h attachedthereto, only the paper or other package being within the recess iscarried along with the slide, while the remaining packages strikeagainst the front wall of the cabinet and are retained in thecompartment. It will appear evident that the package or paper removedcan be again returned into the compartments by means of one of theslides. a

In order to prevent the various packages from falling out of thecompartments, which would cause considerable annoyance, I construct therear section, B, with a series of Iongitudinal bars, F, which close upagainst the compartments, whereby the packages are secured, while theslides pass between the spaces left between said bars.

The cabinet is made separable in order that it can be refilled when itssupply of packages in any of the compartments becomes exhaust ed, and inthe example shown in the drawings a drawer, G, occupies the lowerportion of the cabinet, which can be used to keep a supply of packagesto replenish the compart ments.

The cabinet shown in the drawings is more especially designed to befilled with papers containing needles, and from the precedingdescription the convenience of the cabinet for the purpose will bereadily understood. The various slides corresponding to the apartmentscan be numbered with figures corresponding to the numbers indicating thesizes of the needles;

What I claim as new, and desire to secure constructed to close thecompartments, subby Letters Patent, is stantially as shown anddescribed.

Thecombination, with thesepzirablesections In testimony whereof I havehereunto set B B and the vertical partition-walls secured to my hand andseal in the presence of two sub- 5 the lia'ront steition, 131,1 oftislhegrooves d, gormeg scribing witnesses.

in t e par i ion-wa s, e openings 0, orme in the front section, theslides E, which extend FBEDRIGK MEYERS' through the openings and fit thegrooves, re- \Vitnesses: cesses E, formed in the slides, and longitudi-WV. HAUFF,

IO nal bars extending across the section B and A. FABER DU FAUR, Jr.

